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family and said he would decide whether fund-raising is strong enough to stay in the race at least through the iowa caucuses 35 days from now. steve grubs is cain's chairman, on the conference call this morning and is with us live to start the program from davenport, iowa. tell me your gut. does your gut tell you yes or no you'll have a candidate come saturday or sunday? >> i think we'll definitely have a campaign and a candidate come this weekend and all the way to january 3rd. the real issue is, you know, the impact on the iowa cam. . we've got almost 900 precinct captains in place...

anything but a holiday for americans reeling from extreme weather. lee is weakening to a tropical depression, but still a massive rain maker that could make travel across much of the country a nightmare. storms' winds have helped fuel wildfires in central texas. at this hour, a thousand homes are in danger near austin. and later today, hurricane katia will unleash its first impact on the east coast. we're tracking this storm and tell you where that's headed in a moment. first, we want to begin with the flooding rains pounding the gulf coast since lee made la landfall in louisia...

Those markets closed, japan down nearly 4%. pack to the lows that it hit after the earthquake. hong kong off nearly 4.4%. and europe weather europe opened, the heavy selling continued. both the u.k. and german markets down 3%. bouncing off slightly off the lows. currently down 2%. we have a perfect storm here of fears. global growth slowdown, particularly centered on what's going on in the u.s., combined with a euro zone debt problem that has reignited fears about the stability of the euro zone banking system. >> and you're struck by the con taj an of this as it starts, as it did yesterday in ...

treed. jacob zuma will try to convince moammar gadhafi of peace talks. his rival and another fifa executive have been temporarily -- a coalition commander has offered his sincerest apologies for an air strike on saturday that he says killed nine people in afghanistan. and earlier toll according to afghan and nato forces was 14. hamid karzai condemned the strike. those are the headlines. "world business today" starts right now. good morning from cnn london. >> good afternoon from cnn hong kong. you're watching "world business today." here are our top stories for this monday, m...

Fluctuation on some of the european markets to say the least. last time we looked three of them were in the red. it is just the ftse down now. stronger gains coming from frankfurt. that market for second day up about .24 of 1%. >> here in asia, the markets closed, of course rs for the day. that's how it ended up. the ha shanghai composite reacting to an interest rate rise in china. banks under attack in shanghai and hong kong, as well. you were watching "world business today." thank you for joining us. i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. >> i'm nina dos santos in london. here's monita rajpal. >> ...